[PATCH] ARM: PMU: fix runtime PM enable

[Jon Hunter]

On 10/25/2012 11:47 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 05:42:21PM +0100, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> Jon Hunter <jon-hunter at ti.com> writes:
>>> On 10/24/2012 12:23 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
>>>> What do other drivers do? Grepping around, I see calls to pm_runtime_enable
>>>> made in various drivers and, given that you pass the device in there, what's
>>>> the problem with us just calling that unconditionally from perf? I know you
>>>> said that will work for OMAP, but I'm trying to understand the effect that
>>>> has on PM-aware platforms that don't require this for the PMU (since this
>>>> seems to be per-device).
>>>
>>> I had done this initially when testing on OMAP platforms that do and
>>> don't require runtime PM for PMU. I don't see any side affect of this,
>>> however, may be Kevin could comment on if that is ok. It would be the
>>> best approach.
>>
>> Unconditonally enabling runtime PM should be fine.  It may add a slight
>> bit of overhead calling runtime PM functions that ultimately do nothing
>> (because there are no callbacks), but it will be harmless.
>>
>> Personally, I think that would be cleaner.  The less pdata we need, the
>> better, IMO.
> 
> Thanks Kevin, I'm fine with that. Jon: want me to write a patch or do you
> have something I can take into the ARM perf tree (if the latter, please
> base against perf/updates)?

I can easily spin this. Will base on top of your branch.

Cheers
Jon